It is easier to ship recipes than cakes and biscuits

“It is easier to ship recipes than cakes and biscuits” — a quote attributed to John Maynard Keynes since June 2013 (http://www.architecture00.net/news/2206) at least 2008 (https://books.google.nl/books?id=2pV9Geqv1cIC&pg=PA211#v=onepage&q&f=false). Seems an unlikely Keynes quote, as the Keynesian “cake” typically is the economy.

Congratulations, Ton, and Thank You

Past Friday and Saturday, I spent 2 days with Ton Zylstra and his friends and family celebrating his 40th birthday with an unconference and a BBQ. It was an awesome opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make new ones — and to exchange insights and opinions on stuff as diverse as Lilia’s “unschooling schools”,…

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Available Online Means Many Things …

Available online means many things, and often less than you would think. ETH Zurich bragged about their library about Swiss writer Max Frisch and how they would make all 1810 volumes “online available” Im Netz nach Max Frischs Perlen tauchen Das Max Frisch-Archiv macht sämtliche 1‘810 Bücher der Präsenzbibliothek online zugänglich What sounds too good…

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